Das Kapital by Audible mainframe Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]:
Hey yo it's E-X-P-
To the -osition
And it's pretty safe to say
I ain't no Christian
I ain't no Muslim
I ain't a Jew neither
I ain't none of that
I'm just a truth seeker
Looking at Tolstoy
Malcolm X
Karl Marx, Socrates
You think I'm fooling myself with philosophy
Well I refuse to be a tool for hypocrisy
And you're the one that's fooled
If you think this is democracy
I know you think your vote counts a bit
But the last election shoulda proved
It don't count for shit
So what you gonna do
Sit down and stay complacent
Or take back your life
From these murderers and rapists
I grip a Molotov cocktail
Lightin' the pilot
Running down the street
Screaming death to a tyrant
Defiant, till my lungs run out of breath
Or until we snatch power
From the forces of death
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)
[Verse 2]
Jah gave me life
No government can deny me
The right to a smile
And the right to feel irie
I be, living my life by my rules
I don't want to be used
As one of Babylon's tools
Politicians on the news
Don't believe what you see
He might be a family man
But he's evil to me
And it's so easy to see how
He made you a casualty
Inject deception extract actuality
These neo-fallacies with their [mal-prophecies?]
The way we get treated is such
A fucking atrocity
Fortune on the next block
You won't let us cross the street
That's the way it is
But not the way it's gotta be
Police committing crimes
That we have to react to
He's shooting 41
Get 82 back at you
You gave me an answer
But yo I didn't even ask you
Fuck equality I'm trying to run right past you
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)
[Verse 3]
I ain't no politician
I don't got no religion
I don't know what the answer is
But I know what it isn't
I know it ain't strapping suicide bombs to children
And I know that it's not capitalism
Stockbrokers rob people
And they make millions
Social workers get paid nothing
To nurture children
They don't care about your problems
If they don't know you
Unless you got cash stacked
That's taller than Prone Two
There's never been a leadership
Who gave a fuck about it's citizens
So why you thinking that now
Is any different
I'm fiddling with freedom
And scribbling on a loose leaf
Make music so ill
That Republicans want to shoot me
But Republican, Democract
It's all the same
They're burning different books
But they throw it in one flame
They're playing the same game so
They suffer the same shame
They talk with two tongues
But they're saying the same thing
Come one
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)
[Verse 1]:
Hey yo it's E-X-P-
To the -osition
And it's pretty safe to say
I ain't no Christian
I ain't no Muslim
I ain't a Jew neither
I ain't none of that
I'm just a truth seeker
Looking at Tolstoy
Malcolm X
Karl Marx, Socrates
You think I'm fooling myself with philosophy
Well I refuse to be a tool for hypocrisy
And you're the one that's fooled
If you think this is democracy
I know you think your vote counts a bit
But the last election shoulda proved
It don't count for shit
So what you gonna do
Sit down and stay complacent
Or take back your life
From these murderers and rapists
I grip a Molotov cocktail
Lightin' the pilot
Running down the street
Screaming death to a tyrant
Defiant, till my lungs run out of breath
Or until we snatch power
From the forces of death
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)
[Verse 2]
Jah gave me life
No government can deny me
The right to a smile
And the right to feel irie
I be, living my life by my rules
I don't want to be used
As one of Babylon's tools
Politicians on the news
Don't believe what you see
He might be a family man
But he's evil to me
And it's so easy to see how
He made you a casualty
Inject deception extract actuality
These neo-fallacies with their [mal-prophecies?]
The way we get treated is such
A fucking atrocity
Fortune on the next block
You won't let us cross the street
That's the way it is
But not the way it's gotta be
Police committing crimes
That we have to react to
He's shooting 41
Get 82 back at you
You gave me an answer
But yo I didn't even ask you
Fuck equality I'm trying to run right past you
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)
[Verse 3]
I ain't no politician
I don't got no religion
I don't know what the answer is
But I know what it isn't
I know it ain't strapping suicide bombs to children
And I know that it's not capitalism
Stockbrokers rob people
And they make millions
Social workers get paid nothing
To nurture children
They don't care about your problems
If they don't know you
Unless you got cash stacked
That's taller than Prone Two
There's never been a leadership
Who gave a fuck about it's citizens
So why you thinking that now
Is any different
I'm fiddling with freedom
And scribbling on a loose leaf
Make music so ill
That Republicans want to shoot me
But Republican, Democract
It's all the same
They're burning different books
But they throw it in one flame
They're playing the same game so
They suffer the same shame
They talk with two tongues
But they're saying the same thing
Come one
[Hook]
This is Das Kapital
(I gave you fair warning)
We've come to smash it down
(Beware)
If you can't see this now
(I gave you fair warning)
Then we will show you how
(Beware)